Short Storytime 📖 Bonus Edition! 😬 Firstly, if you’ve looked at my Stories today, you will have seen that I set myself a challenge to see if I could complete a painting in an hour and a half. The initial idea was that I would sit down and just paint for 1.5 hours without distraction. It didn’t quite turn out like that, and in the end the bird was painted in three separate stages, but I did actually finish her, and at a guess, she took more like 2-2.5 hours rather than 1.5! But I tried. You can’t hurry fancy patterns like this. 😂 Ok, on to my funny story...
The other day I was contacted by a lady from the ‘Famous Birthdays’ website. I’d never heard of this website but apparently it gets around 20 million visitors a month. She told me that, “Natasha Newton’s fans have been visiting her page but we have no images of her, so would you please give us permission to use some from her social media”. If you’ve read my Storytime from the other day about my ongoing situation with the cookery book author who’s also called Natasha Newton and the number of emails I receive from her readers, you will probably be able to guess what my face looked like when I saw this email. Here’s an artistic impression in emoji form: 🧐🙄😡🤬 So, I go to check out this website and reluctantly type in “Natasha Newton”, with 100% certainty that it’s going to take me through to Natasha of spicy ‘Chilli Cheese Pot Pie’ fame. I’m already mentally writing the email reply in my head, explaining that I am not *that* Natasha Newton. Well, imagine my surprise when, before I’d even finished typing my name, it auto-guessed (or whatever you call it) “Natasha Newton (Illustrator)”. IT WAS ME! 🤯🥳 Pot Pie Natasha was nowhere to be seen, and apparently someone had seen fit to add me to this website (I’m guessing the admins), with facts about me and everything! One fact is wrong though; go and have a look and see if you can guess which one! It’s somewhat surreal when you see stuff online about you that hasn’t been written by you, but I found it so funny and I wanted to share it. (What I have done to be included on there I have no idea, but thanks famousbirthdays.com!) 🖤 ...